D659 Assessing and Monitoring Student Learning OA Practice

Assessing and Monitoring Student Learning - D659. OA practice questions

A teacher wants students to be able to write the prime factorization of any three-digit number. The teacher is presenting the curent unit with this goal in mind. Which assessment method should this teacher use to effectively monitor student progress throughout the unit? 

An exit ticket asking students to find the prime factorization of a number. 

The teacher of a biology class is presenting a unit about animal cells. The goal of the unit is for students to learn to describe the functions of cellular components. Which assessment method should this teacher use to effectively monitor student progress? 

A knowledge-check question for students to narrate how cellular components work

In a unit about velocity and acceleration, the teacher of a physics class has the goal that students will be able to calculate the position of an object based on its acceleration, velocity, and starting position. Which assessment method should the teacher use to effectively evaluate whether students understood the content after the completion of the unit?

A final exam with questions about calculating positions based on velocity and acceleration

In a trigonometry unit, a teacher has the goal of having students calculate the six standard trigonometric ratios when given the side lengths of a right triangle. Which assessment method should this teacher use to effectively monitor student progress throughout the unit?

An end-of-class survey asking students to match trigonometric ratios to values

In a unit about sensation and perception, the teacher has the goal for students to be able to identify the roles of brain structures in sensation and perception. Which assessment method should this teacher use to effectively monitor student progress throughout the unit?

A group discussion summarizing the functions of each brain structure as it relates to sensation and perception

A high school psychology teacher wants to use an effective assessment for student engagement at the end of the semester. The goal is to have students demonstrate an understanding of major psychological theories of behavior.

How should this teacher effectively promote student engagement in this assessment?

Let students choose between a presentation or an essay

A geometry teacher is presenting a unit about right triangles and wants to design a unit assignment that will effectively engage students. The teacher plans on giving an exam.

Which strategy should the teacher use to effectively engage students?

Review the learning objectives to be tested

After obtaining the results from the first exam, a biology teacher has the goal of increasing student engagement for future assessments.

How should the teacher achieve this goal?

Conduct goal-setting sessions to review results

The teacher of a physics class is planning for students to complete a group project about motion for an assessment. The teacher wants a high level of student engagement for the project.

Which strategy should the teacher use?

Give students a list of project options to choose from

A history teacher gave an exam after presenting a unit about early U.S. history. The teacher graded the exams and wants to improve student engagement for future assessments.

Which strategy should be used to help the teacher achieve this goal?

Help students set individual goals for improvement

One of the standards for elementary math is "Multiply two-digit whole numbers." A teacher is using the following objective: "Students will use the standard algorithm to correctly multiply two two-digit numbers at least four out of five times."

Which progress-monitoring assessment should the teacher use?

A timed worksheet with multiplication of two-digit numbers

An elementary teacher is using the standard, "Compare and contrast characters, events, and settings in a story." The objective is, "After reading a short story, students will write a paragraph comparing two characters with at least three supporting details."

What is an appropriate summative assessment?

A timed essay in which students compare two characters in a given short story

The teacher of a seventh-grade history class is using the objective, "Students will describe the steps in which a given bill becomes a law with 75% accuracy," to address the standard, "Identify key steps in a text's description of a process."

What is an appropriate summative assessment, given the standard and objective?

A project in which students illustrate the process of a bill becoming a law

The teacher of a logical and critical thinking class is using the objective," Given an if-then statement, write at least three statements to support the conclusion," to address the standard, "Compile evidence to support a statement."

Which type of assessment is appropriate?

A presentation in which students defend the conclusion of an if-then statement

In order to address the objective, "Students will build a model bridge using basic materials to support at least 10 pounds using basic materials," an engineering teacher is assessing students by having them work in pairs to build a model bridge using hot glue and craft sticks.

Which standard is aligned with the objective and assessment?

Design a solution to a real-world problem.

A math teacher is giving students an exam in which they must identify trigonometric ratios from given right triangles. This exam is meant to assess the objective," Given a labeled right triangle and an angle, students will correctly express at least four of the six trigonometric ratios."

Which standard is supported by the objective?

Use trigonometric ratios to solve problems.

In order to assess the objective," Given a variable, students will identify appropriate qualitative or quantitative methods with 90% accuracy," a psychology teacher is having students complete a project. Students must gather data using a variety of assigned methods and compare the results and processes.

Which standard is aligned with the assessment and objective?

Explore quantitative and qualitative methods of research.

A science teacher is addressing the standard, "Illustrate the process of photosynthesis." The teacher is assessing students by having them label components and steps on a photosynthesis diagram.

Which objective supports the teacher's actions?

Students will label a given illustration of the process of photosynthesis with at least 85% accuracy.

A Spanish teacher is having students give a short autobiographical speech in Spanish. The corresponding standard is "Present information to an audience of listeners or readers."

Which objective supports the teacher's actions?

Students will make a verbal presentation in Spanish with 75% accuracy for a given topic.

The teacher of an algebra class is addressing the standard, "Identify zeros of polynomials," by giving students an exam in which they must determine the zeros of three quadratic polynomials and show their work.

Which objective is in alignment with the given standard and assessment?

Given a list of quadratic polynomials, students will use factoring to identify the zeros, if any, with 80% accuracy.

A teacher is beginning to teach a unit on geology. The teacher gives a pre-assessment to determine where the students are in their understanding prior to getting started. The teacher finds that 36% of students are proficient in identifying rocks, 42% are proficient in understanding geological processes, 75% are proficient in understanding rock layers, and 47% are proficient in identifying minerals.

What is the area of greatest weakness for the students, based on the given data?

Identifying rocks

A math teacher is teaching a unit about polynomials. The results from formative assessments have revealed that 12 students are proficient in factoring, 15 students are proficient in graphing, 6 students are proficient in addition, and 7 students are proficient in multiplication. The class has 17 students.

Which topic represents the area of greatest strength for the students?

Graphing

A language arts teacher used a short story writing assignment to assess students. The table shows mastery by criterion for each student, where "X" indicates proficiency.

Student Creativity Tone Consistency Development

1 - X X X 

2 X X X -

3 X X X X

4 - X X -

5 - X X -

6 - X X -

7 - X X X

8 - - X X

9 X X X -

10 X X X X

What is the area of greatest weakness for the class?

Creativity

Proficiency levels for a class of students both before and after a lesson are shown in the two pie charts.

Which conclusion can be drawn from the data?

The number of students approaching proficiency decreased after the assessment.

The given chart shows how five students performed on a quiz. The quiz was assessing students' mastery of the learning objective "Given a ten-question quiz, students will correctly solve at least seven out of ten questions."

Which student(s) demonstrated mastery?

Students 1 and 4

A teacher measured proficiency levels for a particular concept with two formative assessments. The data are shown in the bar graph. Which conclusion can be drawn from the data?

The number of students approaching proficiency decreased.

A Spanish teacher used an in-class worksheet to evaluate student understanding of verb conjugations. The teacher noticed through observation that approximately 10% of the students looked puzzled and were not making progress on the worksheet.

How should the teacher adjust instruction, based on the results of the observation?

Continue to the next lesson, but offer support to the 10% of students that need it

A math teacher reviewed the results of an end-of-year standardized exam for all their students. The average score for geometry concepts was 87%, and the average score for algebra concepts was 59%.

Which instructional adjustment is appropriate, based on the results of the assessment?

Adjust pacing to spend more time on algebra concepts for next year

The final project for a chemistry class required that students conduct and document an experiment. After evaluating the results, the teacher found that the class average for procedures was 86%, the class average for documentation was 52%, and the class average for conclusions was 82%.

Which instructional adjustment is appropriate, based on the results of the assessment?

Place a greater emphasis on documentation for the next group of students

A state assessment was administered to the students in a fifth-grade class at the conclusion of the academic year. The table shows the relevant results.

Topic Not Proficient (% of students)

Mathematics 62%

Reading Comprehension 36%

How should instruction be adjusted, based on the results of the assessment?

Update the curriculum to better address mathematics concepts

While grading classwork from multiple students, a Language Arts teacher provided written feedback by writing comments on student assignments. Which statement is an example of how a teacher should provide quality, written feedback to students?

"Although your writing needs organization, you have a well-developed thesis statement."

A student has just completed a quiz on adding and subtracting fractions, scoring 65% and not meeting proficiency based on the learning objective.

Which statement is an example of how a teacher should provide quality, written feedback to this student?

You did a really great job solving the addition fraction problems, but need some more support with subtraction. Let's review the subtraction problems you got incorrect to see what you did wrong.

In a classroom setting, which statement demonstrates how a teacher should provide supportive, real-time feedback to promote student learning?

Sharing specific examples that affirm students' efforts and achievements

A student struggles with a challenging geometry problem during a high school math class. How can the teacher immediately provide words of encouragement and actions to support student success?

Advise the student to work with a higher-achieving student on the assignment.

In a high school science class, a student is struggling to understand a laboratory experiment.

How should the teacher provide immediate feedback to encourage this student's learning?

Providing constructive suggestions for improvement during the experiment

In a unit about prime factorization, the teacher has the goal for students to be able to determine the prime factorization for any three-digit number.

Which assessment method should the teacher use to effectively evaluate if students understood the content after the completion of the unit?

A final exam covering all the prime factorization topics of the unit

In a unit about animal cells, the primary goal is for students to learn the functions of animal cell structures.

Which assessment method should this teacher use to effectively monitor student progress?

A knowledge-check question for students to narrate how cellular components work

The teacher of a Spanish class is presenting a unit about family and relationship vocabulary. The goal is for students to be able to effectively use the vocabulary from the unit.

Which assessment method should this teacher use to effectively monitor student progress throughout the unit?

A series of short quizzes covering vocabulary related to family and relationships

In a unit about the Civil War, the teacher of a history class has the goal that students will be able to identify the outcome of each major Civil War battle.

Which assessment method should the teacher use to effectively evaluate if students understood the content after the completion of the unit?

An oral exam asking students to explain the results of at least two major Civil War battles

In a unit about velocity and acceleration, the teacher of a physics class has the goal that students will be able to calculate the position of an object based on its acceleration, velocity, and starting position.

Which assessment method should this teacher use to effectively monitor student progress throughout the unit?

A knowledge-check question asking students to determine a position using velocity and acceleration

A chemistry teacher is presenting a unit about molecular geometry. The goal for students is to be able to identify the geometry of a number of given molecules based on their chemical formulas.

Which assessment method should the teacher use to effectively evaluate if students understood the content after the completion of the unit?

A multiple-choice test asking students to identify geometries from given chemical formulas

The teacher of a precalculus class is presenting a unit about trigonometric ratios. The goal is that students will be able to use a given right triangle to calculate any of the six trigonometric ratios.

Which assessment method should this teacher use to effectively monitor student progress throughout the unit?

An end-of-class survey asking students to match trigonometric ratios to values

In a unit about creative writing, the teacher has the goal that students will be able to write an original, fictional short story with several characters.

Which assessment method should this teacher use to effectively monitor student progress throughout the unit?

An exit ticket asking students to write several sentences describing an original fictional character

The teacher of a psychology course is covering a unit on sensation and perception. The goal is for students to learn how various brain structures contribute to sensation and perception.

Which assessment method should the teacher use to effectively evaluate if students understood the content after the completion of the unit?

An exam asking students to describe how each brain structure relates to sensation and perception

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A high school psychology teacher wants to use an effective assessment for student engagement for the end of the semester. The goal is to have students demonstrate an understanding of major psychological theories of behavior.

How should this teacher effectively promote student engagement in this assessment?

Let students choose between a research paper and a presentation

The teacher of a geometry class is designing a unit exam in order to assess student understanding of right triangles. The teacher wants to promote student engagement for the exam.

Which strategy should the teacher use?

Review the learning objectives to be tested

After obtaining the results from the first exam, a biology teacher has the goal of increasing student engagement for future assessments.

How should the teacher achieve this goal?

Meet with students individually to set goals

A physics teacher is presenting a unit about motion. At the end of the unit, students will complete a group project in which the teacher hopes to have a high level of student engagement.

What is an appropriate strategy for this goal?

Allow students to choose the topic of the project

A high school English teacher wants to assess students with a short story writing assignment after presenting a unit about creative writing.

Which strategy should the teacher use to promote student engagement?

Clearly discuss the expectations for the assignment

A middle school history teacher presented a unit about early U.S. history and concluded the unit with an exam. The teacher has the results and wants to increase student engagement for future assessments.

Which strategy should the teacher use?

Ask each student to identify two areas for improvement

A middle school geography teacher presented a unit about Europe and is planning to assess students by having them create some kind of map.

Which strategy should the teacher use to promote student engagement?

Let students choose a specific region to draw for the map

After presenting a unit about food and restaurants, a Spanish teacher wants to assess students by simulating a restaurant ordering experience. The teacher has the goal of maximizing the engagement of students for the assessment.

What is an appropriate strategy for this goal?

Explain criteria for expected sentence structures

An elementary school math teacher is using the standard, "Multiply two-digit whole numbers." The objective states that students should be able to use the standard algorithm to correctly multiply two two-digit numbers 80% of the time.

Which type of assessment should the teacher use to help monitor student progress, given the standard and objective?

A timed worksheet with multiplication of two-digit numbers

An elementary teacher is using the standard, "Compare and contrast characters, events, and settings in a story." The objective is, "After reading a short story, students will write a paragraph comparing two characters with at least three supporting details."

What is an appropriate summative assessment?

A short essay in which students write about the differences in two short story characters

One of the standards for a middle school history class is, "Identify key steps in a text's description of a process." The teacher is using the objective, "Students will describe the steps in which a given bill becomes a law with 75% accuracy."

What is an appropriate summative assessment, based on the objective and standard?

A project in which students illustrate the process of a bill becoming a law

A logic and critical thinking teacher is currently addressing the standard, "Compile evidence to support a statement." The objective for current instruction is, "Given an if-then statement, write at least three statements to support the conclusion."

Which assessment is appropriate for the given objective and standard?

A presentation in which students defend the conclusion of an if-then statement

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The teacher of an engineering class is having students work on a project in which they build a model bridge using hot glue and craft sticks. The project is being used as an assessment for the objective, "Given basic materials, students will build a 24-inch model bridge that supports a minimum of 10 pounds."

Which standard is aligned with the assessment and objective?

Create and implement solutions to real-world problems.

In order to address the objective, "Students will correctly express at least four of the six trigonometric ratios when given a labeled right triangle and an angle," a math teacher is giving an exam with five triangles. Students must write the correct trigonometric ratios for one angle of each of the five triangles.

Which standard is aligned with the objective and assessment?

Understand and apply trigonometric ratios.

A chemistry teacher is currently focusing on the objective, "Given chemical compound names, students will write the correct chemical formulas four out of five times."

Which standard is aligned with the assessment and objective?

Name and write chemical formulas.

A psychology teacher is having students complete a project in which they gather data using a variety of assigned research methods and compare both the data and the methods. This project was designed to assess the objective, "Given a variable, students will identify appropriate qualitative or quantitative methods with 90% accuracy."

Which standard is supported by the objective?

Compare qualitative and quantitative research methods.

The students in a science class are being assessed by completing a worksheet in which they are to label a diagram pertaining to photosynthesis. The teacher is addressing the standard, "Illustrate the process of photosynthesis."

Which objective matches the given assessment and standard?

Students will label a given illustration of the process of photosynthesis with at least 85% accuracy.

As part of the goal of addressing the standard, "Present information to an audience of listeners or readers," a Spanish teacher is assessing students by having them give a short autobiographic speech in Spanish.

Which objective is in alignment with the given standard and assessment?

Given a topic, students will make a verbal presentation in Spanish with 80% accuracy.

The students of an algebra class are taking an exam in which they must identify the zeros of three quadratic polynomials and show their work. The corresponding standard is, "Identify zeros of polynomials."

Which objective matches the given assessment and standard?

Students will use factoring to identify the zeros of quadratic polynomials with 75% accuracy.

The results from a pre-assessment before a unit about biology revealed that 42% of students are proficient in cellular structures, 79% of students are proficient in cell division, 66% of students are proficient in genetic mechanisms, and 62% of students are proficient in energy production.

What is the topic of greatest weakness for the students, based on the results of the pre-assessment?

Cellular structures

A geography teacher is covering Asia in the current unit. The teacher has found that 20 students are proficient in country names, 5 students are proficient in lakes and oceans, 14 students are proficient in major cities, and 8 students are proficient in major rivers. There are 24 students in the class.

What is the area of greatest strength for the students, based on the given data?

Country names

The chart shows student performance on a writing project for a language arts class. An "X" indicates proficiency.

Student	Clarity	Style	Organization	Grammar
1	X	X		X
2	X	X		X
3		X		X
4	X	X	X	X
5		X	X	X
6		X		X
7		X	X	X
8		X
9	X	X	X	X
10	X	X		X

What is the area of greatest weakness for the class?

Organization

A teacher recorded proficiency levels both before and after a lesson. The results are shown in the pie charts.

Which conclusion can be drawn from the pie charts?

The number of students approaching proficiency decreased after the assessment.

A teacher taught a lesson on solving linear equations. The teacher gave a quiz to assess the learning objective "Given a ten-question quiz, students will solve at least seven out of ten questions correctly." The chart shows the results for five students.

Student	Item 1	Item 2	Item 3	Item 4	Item 5	Item 6	Item 7	Item 8	Item 9	Item 10	Score
1		X	X	X	X	X	X				60%
2		X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	80%
3	X	X					X	X	X	X	60%
4				X							10%
5	X	X	X	X			X	X	X		70%

Which students(s) demonstrated mastery?

Students 2 and 5

A teacher measured proficiency levels for a particular concept with two formative assessments. The data are shown in the bar graph.


Which conclusion can be drawn from the data?

The number of students approaching proficiency decreased.

Students in an anatomy class were given a diagram to label at the end of a lesson. The teacher found that 76% of students labeled several muscles incorrectly, and 14% of students labeled several bones incorrectly.

Which instructional adjustment is appropriate, based on the results of the assessment?

Reteach the content about muscles in the next lesson

The table shows the results from a quick survey given during the middle of a lesson about writing and solving linear equations for real-world problems.

Goal	Class Average
Identify important information	90%
Write an equation	60%
Solve and interpret	89%

Which instructional adjustment is appropriate, based on the survey results?

Provide additional instruction about writing equations

A history teacher gave a quiz at the end of a lesson about the U.S. government. The class average for the quiz was 52%.

How should the teacher adjust instruction, based on the quiz results?

Teach the content again using a different method

An exit ticket was used to evaluate student understanding at the end of a math lesson about polynomial multiplication. The teacher discovered that more than 50% of the students struggled to correctly apply the distributive property.

Which adjustment to instruction is appropriate, based on the results of the exit ticket?

Show several more examples before moving to the next topic

A Spanish teacher observed students as they worked individually on a worksheet to practice verb conjugations. The teacher noticed that approximately 10% of the students looked puzzled and were not making progress.

Which adjustment to instruction is appropriate, based on the results of the observation?

Continue to the next lesson, but offer support to the 10% of students that need it

A teacher held a discussion about interpretations of a short story during a lesson. The teacher noticed that students responded incorrectly to about 50% of the discussion questions.

How should the teacher adjust instruction, based on the results of the discussion?

Spend more time on strategies for interpretation

An accounting teacher had students complete a knowledge-check question during a lesson. There are 20 students in the class. The teacher found that 18 students identified the correct value, 10 students identified the type of value correctly, and 19 students performed the correct calculation.

Which instructional adjustment is appropriate, based on the results of the assessment?

Use the next part of the lesson to review the different types of values

A science teacher gave students an end-of-unit test after presenting a unit about weather. The results of the quiz are shown in the table.

Topic	Class Average
Cloud identification	82%
Warm and cold fronts	52%

How should instruction be adjusted, based on the results of the assessment?

Review cold and warm fronts before starting the next unit

The students in a math class took an end-of-year standardized exam. The average score for algebra concepts was 59%, and the average score for geometry concepts was 87%.

How should instruction be adjusted, based on the results of the assessment?

Spend more classroom time with algebra concepts during the next year

For the final project for chemistry students, they were required to conduct and document an experiment. The teacher found that the class average for procedures was 86%, the class average for documentation was 52%, and the class average for conclusions was 82%.

How should instruction be adjusted, based on the results of the assessment?

Place a greater emphasis on documentation for the next group of students

At the conclusion of the academic year, the students in a fifth-grade class were required to take a state assessment. The teacher evaluated the results, which are partially shown in the table.

Topic	Not Proficient (% of students)
Mathematics	62%
Reading Comprehension	36%

Which instructional adjustment is appropriate, based on the results of the assessment?

Revise the curriculum to spend more time on mathematics